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Week 11

Exam #2

Tools: Lithics

CEE

 

Read:
 Ch. 13, "Early Holocene Hunters and Gatherers," pp. 297-330
Post: PCforum

Text Resources

 

 

"Hobbit" from Indonesia.

"Hobbit"
from Indonesia
(National Geographic)
 
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Tuesday 13 November 2007

Week 11 Day 21

Announcements

  • Question: "What significance does the discovery of a Neandertal hyoid bone virtually identical to modern humans play?"

  • Rare great ape fossil challenges evolutionary theory -- Physorg, November 12, 2007



    • A Silverback male mountain Gorilla sits in the dense jungle canopy on the edge of Uganda's Bwindi National Park in this January 2007 photo.

    "A Silverback male mountain Gorilla sits in the dense jungle canopy on the edge of Uganda's Bwindi National Park in this January 2007 photo. Archaeologists have discovered the ancient jawbone of what appears to be a new species of ape that was very close to the last common ancestor of gorillas, chimpanzees and humans, a study released Monday said."

    "Archaeologists have discovered the ancient jawbone of what appears to be a new species of ape that was very close to the last common ancestor of gorillas, chimpanzees and humans, a study released Monday said."


  • Good Luck on the Exam!


  • NB: The second DAY exam will be Thursday, 15 November 2007, rather than the originally scheduled date of Tuesday, 13 November 2007.
 

PCforum

 

Topic 10 -- Exam II

Exam answer sheet.

For Topic 10, have a look at the Exam II information at <http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/pcexamsTR.html>

The basic exam is multiple-choice, but an optional essay exam is available

sample optional essay exam questions

Click on the various items for details

 

Review: Recommendations on how to study slides

and

Review the materials

Useful Information:

Be sure to set your "Folder Selector"
in the main window
to the current topic
[use the “Reload/Main button" to get to the main window]

Set Folder Selector to Topic 10

PCforum image.

REM: If you have any questions, you can post them on the PCforum
or bring them up in class
 

Features of the Day

Exam #2
 

Old Business

  Week
CEE		 Day
     
Major Discoveries slides: Homo erectus and "The Hobbit"
09 17
     
     
     
  09 18
Migrations Out of Africa (slides 26D)
       
     

 

Assignments

Read:
 Ch. 13, "Early Holocene Hunters and Gatherers," pp. 297-330
Post: PCforum
 

Notes

 
 
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Thursday 15 November 2007

Week 11 Day 22

nlt 2:56, time permitting, for fun:
"Hunt or be Hunted" from Before We Ruled the Earth series -- Discovery Channel
(49 min., 2003, DVD 94, Chs. 5-7)


Announcements

  • NB: The second DAY exam will be Thursday, 15 November 2007, rather than the originally scheduled date of Tuesday, 13 November 2007.

PCforum: Topic 11 -- Prehistoric Chocolate

Chocolate Origins Traced to Beer Makers 3,000 Years Ago

 -- National Geographic News (12 November 2007)

Scientists believe the first cacao beverages were sipped from vessels like this one, which was found in northern Honduras.

Scientists believe the first cacao beverages were sipped from vessels like this one, which was found in northern Honduras.

New analyses of similar pottery fragments suggest people have been enjoying chocolate for more than 3,000 years—about 500 years earlier than previously believed

 

The discovery of the prehistoric origin of chocolate--in Ancient Middle America, dating from about 1100 B.C. to 800 B.C., was near the site of Copan, discussed in the text on pp. 403-411.

 

Related Sites:

From Anthropology in the News
 Texas A&M Department of Anthropology
(13 November 2007)

Earliest Chocolate Drink Found -- Telegraph (11/12/07)

For Topic 9 first review the materials on the discovery of the use of chocolate in Ancient Middle America  presented in Anthropology in the News from Texas A&M on Tuesday, 13 November 2007
(above, or directly from Texas A&M
at <http://anthropology.tamu.edu/news.htm>).

Question:
  What is the significance of the new find to studies of Prehistoric Cultures?
  Why?

PCforum
 <http://www.d.umn.edu/~troufs/PCforum/>

Be sure to set your "Folder Selector"
in the main window
to the current topic
[use the “Reload/Main button" to get to the main window]

Set Folder Selector to Topic 11

Set CEfolder to Topic 11.

REM: If you have any questions, you can post them on the PCforum
or bring them up in class
 

Features of the Day

Before WE Ruled the Earth video.
 

Old Business

Exam #2
 

Assignments

Read:
 Ch. 13, "Early Holocene Hunters and Gatherers," pp. 297-330
Post: PCforum
 

Notes

  • tba
 
 
 
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Exam answer sheet.

Exam #2

CEE  Week: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

CEE Week 11

Exam #2

Tools: Lithics

 

Monday 19 November 2007

Blades and Pressure Flaking
(21 min., 1968, VC 2841)

Alan Alda clip, "Hand Made Humans"
(15 min., 2000, CC, VC 4261)

nlt 07:30 Homo Sapiens: A Look into a Distant Mirror
(53 min., 1999, VC 4324)

"Where did Homo sapiens come from?

How did they interpret their world?

And what did they think and feel?

Were they anything like us?"

 

Read:
 Ch. 13, "Early Holocene Hunters and Gatherers," pp. 297-330
Post: PCforum

Text Resources

 

Clovis point

 
 

Announcements

  • Rare great ape fossil challenges evolutionary theory -- Physorg, November 12, 2007



    • A Silverback male mountain Gorilla sits in the dense jungle canopy on the edge of Uganda's Bwindi National Park in this January 2007 photo.

    "A Silverback male mountain Gorilla sits in the dense jungle canopy on the edge of Uganda's Bwindi National Park in this January 2007 photo. Archaeologists have discovered the ancient jawbone of what appears to be a new species of ape that was very close to the last common ancestor of gorillas, chimpanzees and humans, a study released Monday said."

    "Archaeologists have discovered the ancient jawbone of what appears to be a new species of ape that was very close to the last common ancestor of gorillas, chimpanzees and humans, a study released Monday said."

 

  • The second CEE exam is scheduled for Week 11, Monday, 19 November 2007

Good Luck on the Exam!